Shadi Habib Allah – Dag’Aa

With his latest short film, Dag’aa, Palestinian contemporary artist and filmmaker Shadi Habib Allah takes us on an incredible and unimaginable journey of discovery through the heart of the Sinai Peninsula. A dusty drive through an unmapped terrain, we are led by a group of armed Bedouins whose only signposts are the brief anecdotes and conversations that recount the stakes of living, dying and moving across this mysterious space. Allah’s Dag’aa is an adventure behind the lines of military checkpoints and far off the political, economic and historical grid, where the only rule for the desert outlier is to remain completely invisible and utterly intangible